garrets

A truth which has the downside of keeping many true artists poor in garrets and many false ones rich in mansions was universally acknowledged yesterday.

People prefer happy endings Edward Willett 2006

A truth which has the downside of keeping many true artists poor in garrets and many false ones rich in mansions was universally acknowledged yesterday.

Archive 2006-02-26 Edward Willett 2006

Typhoid and tuberculosis and bankruptcy were handy tools for the author, providing sudden death or disgrace when needed, but they also reflected a familiar social reality: artists did indeed die of ill health in garrets, and businessmen were ruined on the stock exchange.

Wharton's Sharp Eye 2001

Typhoid and tuberculosis and bankruptcy were handy tools for the author, providing sudden death or disgrace when needed, but they also reflected a familiar social reality: artists did indeed die of ill health in garrets, and businessmen were ruined on the stock exchange.

Wharton's Sharp Eye 2001

There is no country yet that has had money enough to give a good home to all of its people, so that its children may not need to be born: n cellars and be crowded in garrets, and live down in ugly, dirty streets.

Education and Wealth 1919

So long as multitudes of our people who are doing the work of the world live in garrets and cellars, in ignorance, poverty, and vice, it is the duty of Congress to apply the surplus in the national treasury to objects which will feed, clothe, shelter, and educate these wards of the State.

Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

It is sad to see so many American girls and boys, who have no genius for painting or sculpture, spending their days in garrets, in solitude and poverty, with the vain hope of earning distinction.

Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

These, by the pressure of want, are necessitated to fill the places once filled, but now vacated, by the very women who are now far removed from cities, from poverty and from toil, with the birds, the flowers, the trees and the beautiful of which they are a part; and those shams of men fill their places in garrets and cellars.

Man's Rights: or, How Would You Like It? 1870

"My rooms are what they call garrets, right up in the roof, with

Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859

a matter of what they discuss — work in garrets, poor relief, popular songs and political protest, for example.

Introduction: Tim Fulford 2009